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THE CRAFTS OF SCREEN VS. STAGE ACTING, THE RESPONSIBILITY OF AFRICAN CELEBRITIES IN THE US, WHY ANTWONE FISHER FAILED AT THE BOX OFFICE, AND WHY HE SAYS ISHMAEL REED IS RIGHT ABOUT THE WIRE Best known as Detective Bunk Moreland on HBO’s The Wire, stage and screen actor Wendell Pierce has appeared in over 30 films and more than 50 television shows. He’s also an outspoken commentator on racism in US life, politics, and entertainment, and a social and economic justice activist for the people of his home town, New Orleans. He was also a top fundraiser for Barack Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign. Way back in 2008, Wendell Pierce came to Edmonton to shoot “Something with Bite,” the werewolf episode of the horror anthology Fear Itself produced by Lion’s Gate, written by Max Landis, who later wrote Chronicle, and directed by Ernest Dickerson, best known for Juice and Never Die Alone. Pierce and I had a wide-ranging discussion in which he discussed: * How he deals ...

CJSR FM88 www.cjsr.com 6 PM Mountain Time Beginning in January and finishing in July, Edmonton and the surrounding area hosted the shooting of Fear Itself , an A merican network summer horror anthology. Ernest Dickerson , who helmed Juice and Never Die Alone among many features, directed the episode “Something With Bite,” which debuts tomorrow night on NBC. Che ck your local listings. I’ve written a featu re story on film and television production in Alberta with Fear Itself at the centre for the issue of Unlimited magazine , s o check your newsstands in August, and the Bro-Log. Actor Wendell Pierce , best known as Detective Bunk Moreland on HBO’s The Wire , plays the world’s first veterinarian to become his own patient. I caught up with both gentlemen on and off-set during their shoot at the end of April and the beginning of May. In the seco nd half of the show, we'll go to South Africa , and a story of democratic s uccess being crushed by corporate power. Sou...